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Simasiku, Liswani; Kasanda, Choshi; Smit, Talita – English Language Teaching, 2015
There has been a high failure rate of Grade 10 learners in the year end examinations in the Caprivi Education Region of Namibia over a number of years. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the use of mother tongue in English medium classrooms enhanced learners' academic achievement.The study investigated 12 teachers at 12 schools…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Academic Achievement, Grade 10, Investigations
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Macaro, Ernesto; Lee, Jang Ho – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Using research data on teacher codeswitching in South Korea, this article investigates the attitudes and perceptions among Korean learners of English as a foreign language towards English-only instruction as opposed to instruction which contains some switching to the learners' first language. The study was in part operationalized by exploring…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Questionnaires